TheHILL. | TECHNOLOGY | March 29, 2021. Ahead of deadline expiration for linkage of Subscribers Identity Module (SIM) cards with National Identity Numbers (NIN) on April 9, the National Identity Management Commission has launched a new Mobile Web Service (MWS) Application and improved National Identity Number (NIN) slips for public use. The launch was […]
TheHILL. HENSHAW NYONG in UYO. The numerous problems besieging the oil and gas sector will once again be the focus of a two-day stakeholders’ summit put together by a renowned technology and communication giants; SamePage communications. The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. King Akpabio, disclosed this, Tuesday, in a press conference in Uyo, […]
TheHILL. Federal Government of Nigeria has approved the establishment of dedicated Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) Swap Centres across the 744 Local Government Areas (LGAs). This decision was reached on Wednesday at the 4th review meeting of the Ministerial Task Force on the National Identification Number (NIN)-SIM registration in Abuja, presided over by the Minister […]
TheHILL. Nigeria may soon join other forward-thinking nations of the world to deploy the fifth Generation, 5G network services in the country. This is as the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, at the weekend revealed that government is putting finishing touches to the policy that will allow 5G services to be deployed in the […]
TheHILL. Today’s world is totally different to the “non-online” world of the past. Before the Internet and all of today’s smart devices, only a handful of organizations had access to your personal information—the IRS, your bank, your doctor, etc. And they didn’t store it all on computer disks. Even if they did, they […]
TheHILL. Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) Nigeria’s Mobile Money (MoMo) service ballooned in the year ended December 2020, as the mobile operator drives its fintech business in Africa’s most populous nation. The telecom, which has been seeking to reposition itself and push into new sources of revenue, recorded increased uptake in its fintech business, which […]
Insurgents have been using armed drones to attack U.S. troops worldwide, so my co-inventor Alex Morrow and I built the DroneDefender to help protect them. It freezes enemy drones in place by disrupting radio- and satellite-control frequencies, but those airwaves are protected by the FCC, so we couldn’t just use the system—even on our own […]